insupportable

Too much burden

Insupportable means impossible to endure or justify.

An insupportable burden crushes you; an insupportable argument cannot be defended.

The word carries more weight than *unbearable* or *unjustifiable*, lending formal gravity to complaints: The heat was insupportable.

His position became insupportable once the evidence emerged.

intolerable

unbearable

Impossible to endure

inexcusable · unjustifiable · unconscionable · indefensible · untenable · outrageous · egregious · reprehensible · inadmissible · impermissible

indefensible

unjustifiable

Cannot be reasonably defended

unfounded · unsound · flawed · weak · faulty · specious · fallacious · spurious · invalid · untenable

overwhelming

crushing

Overwhelming in intensity

burdensome · backbreaking · debilitating · crippling · staggering · insurmountable · unmanageable · impossible · too heavy · weighty

Opposites
tolerability

insupportablebearable

Able to be endured

tolerable · endurable · supportable · sufferable · livable

defensibility

insupportabledefensible

Able to be justified

justifiable · supportable · tenable · justified · reasonable

Family

support, supporter, supported, supporting, supportive, supports, supporters, unsupported, supportable

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